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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Love gives without taking
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Most sex is not really intimate.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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